Cape Town is the city of cold surf, rugged mountains, raw creativity and thus, not surprisingly, Nate Maingard. A self-taught musician, Nate has been playing the guitar for over ten years, from teenage gigs around the mother city to busking his way through the UK.

In a small village on the Atlantic side of the Cape Peninsula, Nate grew up in his dad's guitar-making workshop. Maingard Guitars being some of the best in the world, he learnt from an early age the origins of good music- from the...